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Are Hens made of dark matter?

That’s about 5 octillion times the mass of a proton.

Cannot argue with that science.

I see dark matter has increased in mass by about 11% in a two-minute span, then.

Is @scalzi.com the Oracle? How did he learn so much about dark matter?

Yes and that sounds like an equally (if not more) exotic property to me than a single particle weighing 20 lbs, is all I was saying.

I thought Oracle would be metric.

This was literally the plot of "Heavy Metal".

I prefer tacos, they have less rules than burritos.

turns out thats what he was referencing

No lie detected.

Mmm… Burritos… 🌯

Ypu mean Lexx?

my burrito science backs this up

What's curious about dark matter is that each particle weighs about 20 pounds regardless of local gravity, which is neat.

I just decided what I'm having for lunch.

I see what you are doing! Sewing confusion by getting the SI vs Imperial vs US thing going again. As if Trump wasn't trouble enough. Pounds and slugs to you too!

Future scientist: Really the thing that prevented us from learning more about dark matter was we only interacted with it using the pop culture of the day. Once you started talking to it about Redwall, dark matter really opened up and we began to interact over a shared love of mice with swords

Ah, yes. The Scientific Method. I have used it many times.

belated factoring 22 3085 is 5×617 bsky.app/profile/sadi...

It's funny to think that dark matter could literally only interact via gravity, and we would never be able to find it Maybe the WIMP model where they interact via the weak force was invented more out of hope than expectation lol

@scalzi.com

I mean on bsky. If no alt text is entered then it won't come up.

That's how you know it's a trustworthy oracle: burritos ARE pretty good.

A physics paper I read a while back featured early universe inflaton halos of around 20kg.

I would try asking Postgres

Oracle is wise...

So you are telling me we need a bigger collider?

A lack of ambition then!

Can't argue with that

that's impossible; the maximum mass of a particle is 2e-5 grams, or about as much as a really tiny fly

Title text: "In addition to gravity, burritos interact through the strong, weak, and electromagnetic forces, which is believed to be a major contributor to their popularity." Alt text: https://explainxkcd.com/3085#Transcript

Im all for one of those 20lb burritos...